Advent, Week 2: "Living in Peace"

The angels announced "Peace on earth" at Jesus' birth, but when we're surrounded by violence, broken relationships, and anxiety, it's hard to know how peace is really here. Pastor Glenn Packiam contrasts Caesar's peace-- the Pax Romana-- and they way he brought it through external force with the peace that Jesus brings. Peace is not the absence of trouble but confidence within it that we are being held together by God. Best of all this peace comes to even the lowliest ones-- the shepherds. We find peace as we see how we are favored in God's eyes.